Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961--1965

by Robert J. Cook

Book Overview

In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. Politicians hoped that a formal program of activities to mark the centennial of the Civil War would both bolster American patriotism at the height of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807143650
• ISBN13: 9780807143650
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"